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gedy commented on You don't want to hire "the best engineers" otherbranch.com/shared/bl... · Posted by u/rachofsunshine

throwway120385 · an hour ago

If your business is going to cease to exist in 4 months, who cares about scalability? Pay the interest when it comes due and when you can afford it. If someone is serious about building a company they will be okay with that.

gedy · an hour ago

Sure but then incentivize engineers to hack it out knowing they'll have to deal with the shit show if you become successful. Sorry but most "startup engineers" aren't , and it's basically bad for their careers to implement "the vision" in a throw-away manner.

gedy commented on Eternal Struggle yoavg.github.io/eternal/... · Posted by u/yurivish

wvbdmp · 2 days ago

Not to alarm anyone, but when I ran this, the black ball eventually joined the dark side and the whole thing ended up black. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything for the greater universe.

gedy · 2 days ago

"I am.. Tetsuo."

gedy commented on Sometimes Software Is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024) commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/... · Posted by u/eric_khun

madduci · 2 days ago

If you rely on Hugo, then why don't you use a versioned instance of it? You should.not always run the latest version, if you don't want to.change things that are broken.

They keep using the version 0.x.y, which means, they can at any time break things and don't care about backwards compatibility.

I use versioned instances of Hugo and had in all these years zero issues. I can simply test the new version, then do the required changes and adopt it for my build.

gedy · 2 days ago

I've always been surprised at people who don't version dependencies, even though package managers like npm support this easily. Then they complain of "DEPENDENCY HELL omg" when they've got "*" as a version, or try and bump something critical 3 major versions in the middle of other work. Like why

gedy commented on I'm working on implementing a programming language all my own eli.li/to-the-surprise-of... · Posted by u/ingve

gedy · 4 days ago

Fun, nice work. Side comment, but it feels like this would make a nice match with Jade/Pug[0] HTML syntax for a clean front end experience

[0] https://github.com/pugjs/pug?tab=readme-ov-file#syntax

gedy commented on The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech kennethreitz.org/essays/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy

rlmcdonald · 5 days ago

All the comments here about how it's okay that he got excluded because he did the bad things fall right in line with what he's describing. Mental health awareness is easy when you just throw away all the people who make you uncomfortable! I thought it was a pretty good read and I'm not discounting it because it was written by someone struggling with mental illness.

gedy · 5 days ago

I think there’s just a practical matter of if you have a person in this situation, you need to consider the others around him - as they may just leave to easier situations instead of dealing with it.

I agree that "Companies tout their mental health benefits and neurodiversity initiatives" really should not do this token performative crap without fully understanding what they are implying.

gedy commented on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year cnbc.com/2025/08/27/googl... · Posted by u/frays

gedy · 6 days ago

I feel like units need Sergeants, and tech leads are closer to that than managers/officers.

gedy commented on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year cnbc.com/2025/08/27/googl... · Posted by u/frays

Spivak · 6 days ago

If your position has no upward mobility juniors will change jobs, likely change companies, once they have the experience and all the effort you spent training them will be wasted.

gedy · 6 days ago

If your position has no authority seniors will change jobs, likely change companies, and all the effort you spent on them will be wasted.

gedy commented on Unexpected productivity boost of Rust lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-pro... · Posted by u/bkolobara

gedy · 6 days ago

> Assigning a value to 'window.location.href' doesn't immediately redirect you, like I thought it would.

That's not a "Typescript" or language issue, that's a DOM/browser API weirdness

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gedy commented on Woman Ignored Scam Texts About Overdue Bills. Turns Out They Were Real vice.com/en/article/woman... · Posted by u/paulpauper

gedy · 8 days ago

I appreciate times change, but a text is not an acceptable form of business communication.

My dentist suddenly switched to some SaaS billing service that texts bills and sends sketchy looking links to pay, and which I never agreed to. Sorry blocked! Mail me a bill if you want payment.

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